NUR5204 · Education in health care practice

Overview

This unit will offer you an evidence base for contemporary teaching and learning practice of health care practitioners, within a context of continuous change. You will explore a range of theoretical underpinnings that impact upon the educational process in health care practice with emphasis placed on educational learning theories. You will apply theoretical learning to teaching practice through design, plan and delivery of a teaching practicum and reflecting on their role as a teacher within your own clinical practice. This unit will examine flexible and innovative teaching strategies for both classroom and clinical teaching and supervision experiences in a variety of contexts, including inter-professional education. After completion of this unit, you will be equipped with the knowledge and mastery of skills to respond to health care practitioners learning needs, in order to enhance engagement and educational experiences.

Areas of study: Nursing Nursing education

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Discuss contemporary active learning trends in health profession education.
2. Evaluate current and future educational roles and contexts that encompass education in health care practice.
3. Investigate and analyse a range of educational learning theories and their potential application to health professions’ education.
4. Apply evidence-based educational practices to plan, design and implement an education session for health care practitioners.
5. Evaluate your own teaching approaches in a teaching practicum.
6. Contrast and critique contemporary teaching and learning methods for a range of clinical and academic education contexts.
7. Describe and critique common workplace, clinical supervision and teaching models.
8. Develop your own teaching philosophy to justify your approaches in teaching practice.
9. Apply critical reflective skills through linking past and present learnings to future education in health care practice.

Workload

24 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials and online activities. Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.